36 Weeks (and a day)

Molly Grace was 36 weeks old yesterday. I'm absolutely in awe of God's love and blessings everytime I look at her! This little miracle is what I prayed for, cried over and yearned for for so long! And now she's growing and changing before my eyes! I love it! We had a pretty rough night last night. She didn't want to go to sleep at all, but she was so tired. She cried and cried for hours. I went in once to calm her and she was standing in her crib. The minute I got close enough she grabbed onto my shirt and had the most pitiful cry! I picked her up (for about the 5th time) and rocked her. As I rocked her and thought about how tired I was and how badly I wanted to go to bed myself, I remembered all those nights I cried and prayed for a baby to rock! I always said I would never complain about having to rock a crying baby - I'd be grateful to hear that cry. And I am! Every single time. As I rocked her, I loved on her, thanked God for her and prayed for those who's hearts are hurting for a child of their own.

This is such an amazing and fun time in Molly's life. This is my favorite stage yet, by far. She's so active and so much fun. She's a pro at crawling now - and I mean for real crawling! Tuesday night she just all of a sudden took off! What she really wants to do is stand up, though. It makes her so happy. She pulls up on everything and is getting really good at scaling around.

She's still very vocal! Growling is her main source of communication! ha! She says "da" pretty clearly and often. I get a "mum" or "mama" usually just when she's fussing - and she has no idea what she's saying, but I'll take what I can get!

Dinner time is interesting these days. Molly Grace would much rather eat with her hands than be fed with a spoon! We have to put something on her tray to keep her busy just to get her to take anything off a spoon! Tonight she had pancakes for the first time and literally gobbled them up! Her pincher grasp is getting better, but she still tries to scoop it up. It doesn't matter how she picks it up, though, because she immediately puts her middle 2 fingers in her mouth and the food almost never makes it in!

Molly Grace weighs 18 lbs, 4 oz these days. I can't wait to find out how tall she is at her 9 month checkup. She looks like she's grown a foot!